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Auction History Result 2s0508 WOMEN'S MISERY WOMEN'S HAPPINESS Spanish 1930 Tisse & Eisenstein Swiss abortion documentary! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Spanish Movie Poster (measures 27 3/4" x 39 1/2" [70 x 100 cm]) (Learn More) Frauennot - Frauengluck (released in the U.S. as "Women's Misery - Women's Happiness" and in other English-speaking countries as "Misery and Fortune of Women"), the 1930 Eduard Tisse & Sergei Eisenstein Swiss silent motherhood family pregnancy abortion documentary (about abortion and how it affects women from different social and economic backgrounds) featuring Walburga Gmur, and Johannes Steiner. Note that Eduard Tisse had been Sergei Eisenstein's assistant, but for this movie, Eisenstein let him be the main director. Tisse (and screenwriter Grigory Alexandrow) shot three segments about abortion (with help from Eisenstein) and then combined those segments with documentary footage of two births, which Swiss cameraman Emil Berna had filmed in the Zurich University Women's Clinic, and the components were joined into this single documentary, which was released to much acclaim in several countries (although some required a lecture before showing the movie), and it was banned in all Catholic countries! Movie paper of any kind from it is beyond rare. And of course, the question of abortions is just as much in discussion in 2022 as it was in 1930! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning (or any other movie paper)! Not only that, but ANY Spanish posters from before World War II are beyond rare. This poster (and two others) comes from the same collection of eight early 1930s pre-World War II Spanish movie posters that we auctioned in the past year. Our consignor had "held back" three of the posters, but he has now sent them to us, and once we auction these last three, there will be no more of these early 1930s Spanish posters from this remarkable find of eleven such posters! Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good. The poster must have been stored folded in quarters, with the bottom right quarter exposed, because that quarter of the poster darkened and the other three did not (although there is slight darkening in the left and right borders). Other than this odd defect, the poster has very minor fold and border wear. I would think a talented restorer could use a light bleach to remove much or all of the darkening from the bottom right and of course, if that did not work, a restorer could paint over the background in that area. Obviously one would prefer to find an example of this poster without this defect, but we don't know that another example exists. Learn More about condition grades 
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